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The first thriller set in war-torn Sarajevo The Monkey House is an absorbing moving novel which brutally portrays a modern urban war. The murder of a Serbian informant sends Police Superintendant Rosso on an investigation that takes him through every faction of the conflict from the frontlines to the sniper-filled streets of Sarajevo to the secret black market fortresses. In The Monkey House Sarajevo is a city besieged by the atrocities of war. Stadium walls that once shook with the roar of Olympic crowds have since collapsed under the screams of artillery. Police Superintendent Rosso and the ragtag remains of his Sarajevo police force however remain dedicated to preserving what is left of the city s civil order. In their Sisyphean quest to uphold the law one of their key informants is mysteriously murdered in a narcotics-infected Serb apartment complex called the Monkey House. If the homicide is proven to be the work of Sarajevo s notorious crime boss Luka solving the case could break